Hire as if you were never going to fire.
Remember that employee that got away with everything; Paid holidays, extended vacations, sick leave, excuses, asking for more money, more sick leave, blaming others for their own mistakes, even more sick leaves.
Who hired him/her?
Oh, it was your executive assistant, or your HR department, recruiters? Let me guess, it’s their fault?
Okay, and who hired the person that hired your employee? If you want to go through that again we can, but I think you understand that behind all the hiring’s, you were the person who was secretly in charge of it all.
You might not admit it, that’s fine. This post isn’t about you.
I want you to understand that no matter how good your hiring intuition is, or how good a person seems to be when they start their job, there is no perfect candidate out there.
This is because life goes on.
Things change, people get married, have kids, move away, have relatives move in, or they die. Either way what seems too good to be true is.
So why am I telling you this? It’s not so you recognize that everyone at some point will be mediocre. It’s so you appreciate the things that they do well, and not dwell on the things they don’t.
I tell you this so you understand that organizations are built on people. They aren’t just a digit for when the economy collapses for them to get slashed in the figurative sense. Or literally, however, you want to take that.
Oh, wait, but your employee is extraordinary he/she is the best there is out there and has never let you down.
They will, time will come.
The point I am getting at is your hiring process must be restructured.
The person you are looking for isn’t talented and who has a skill set that most people do not or whose resume runs five pages long.
No.
It isn’t even someone who has a ton of references that you can call. As far back as their job from 15 years ago, to hear about how great they are from a person they’ve kept in touch with this whole time for no other reason than because they rock.
No.
The person you are looking for is a person that is malleable. Someone whose values align with yours.
It’s better that they are mediocre to start with because if you rock, they will too eventually.
They will learn rather than bring their set habits to your organization.
Hire someone who doesn’t know what they are doing, but enjoy getting into uncomfortable situations to evolve.
Look for a person who recognizes what they don’t know, and that when push comes to shove they would show up even when they know they can’t win.
Your next employee should feel belonged rather than feel like they need to fit in.
Who aren’t excessively focused and have the scope of the broader narrative. That the company is unified and it’s not what they do for themselves that matters, although that also matters, but what they do together as a team.
Hire as if you could never fire them because you will help them become successful.
Thank you for reading this post, I was inspired to write this post after reading Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. All I ask is for you to Hit the ❤ it would mean the world to me or leave a comment.
Originally published at karasingroup.com on February 11, 2017.
